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#1

“Fair enough, that's what most people look for to begin with, but money can be a sliding scale, the more you have, the more you want, the more you need,' McBlane said as he sharpened the ash on the tip of his cigar into a point against the rim of the ashtray. It gave him the appearance of wielding a dagger as he gestured with his cigar holding hand.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

tags: visual-moments

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#2

“كل شئ انتهى إلى لا شئ.”
― جوزيه ساراماجو, Las pequeñas memorias

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#3

“My attorney rubbed his hand across his mustache and the corners of his lips several times, as though the allegation was a piece of cake he’d just eaten that had deposited crumbs all over his mouth.”
― Alissa Nutting, Tampa

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#4

“To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up.”
― George Orwell

tags: writing

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#5

“What I was thinking was that she must have buggers in her bloomers or a chigger on her figger, or however you say it. It looked to me like something had better be done about it pretty quick, or her pants would start blazing and maybe they'd set the fairgrounds on fire and there'd be a panic with thousands of people getting stomped to death, not to mention the property damage. And I couldn't think of but one way to prevent it.”
― Jim Thompson, Pop. 1280

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#6

“expectations are dangerous when they are both high and unformed.”
― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

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#7

“That’s what people never understand: They see us hard little pretty things, brightly lacquered and sequin-studded, and they laugh, they mock, they arouse themselves. They miss everything. You see, these glitters and sparkle dusts and magicks? It’s war paint, it’s feathers and claws, it’s blood sacrifice.”
― Megan Abbott, Dare Me

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#8

“People were always sorry. Sorry they had done what they had done, sorry they were doing what they were doing, sorry they were going to do what they were going to do; but they still did whatever it is. The sorrow never stopped them; it just made them feel better. And so the sorrow never stopped.”
― Iain M. Banks, Against a Dark Background

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#9

“The Wisdom of Solomon (Carl)

They censor words not the things they denote:
It would create less of a stir to drop a piece of shit on Grant's tomb
than to write it out in white paint.
Because people recognize that's what memorials are for–old bums & dogs to shit on.”
― Allen Ginsberg, Journals: Early Fifties, Early Sixties

tags: 1952, censorship, memorial, poetry

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#10

“The time flies. The time flies feed on rotting clocks.”
― Craig Clevenger, Dermaphoria

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#11

“my karma was to be born in America where nobody has any fun or believes in anything, especially freedom.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

tags: irie

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#12

“He grabbed at Rupert’s earphones and gave his colleague a very serious look. ‘What do you know about share dealing?’
Rupert placed a finger on his chin and mulled over the question with a studious look. ‘Now you come to mention it,’ he said, ‘I know absolutely nothing.’
Norman grabbed his arm and began dragging his bewildered companion to the nearest lift. ‘Then we need to find out, and find out fast.”
― A.R. Merrydew, Our Blue Orange

tags: creature, dystopian, fiction, gripping, humour, mystery, plot-turns, sci-fi, unexpected

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#13

“TF-16 returned to Pearl Harbor on May 26 in good order, with one huge exception: Admiral Halsey, the sixty-year-old commander, arrived back completely exhausted and ill. After six months of intense underway operations, culminating in the fruitless 7000-mile mission across the Pacific to the Coral Sea and back, Halsey had lost twenty pounds and had contracted a serious case of dermatitis. Nimitz took one look at him and sent him straight to the Pearl Harbor hospital. The Navy’s most experienced and highly regarded carrier force commander would sit out the Battle of Midway. The ultimate sea warrior, Halsey would watch from his hospital window as the two task forces departed Pearl Harbor for Midway.”
― Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

tags: classified, diplomacy, hidden-agendas, inside-story, japan, military-leaders, miscommunication, negotiations, roosevelt, usa

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#14

“I didn't know whether it was the events of the night or the coffee that had made me jittery. I reached into the cabinet over the sink and pulled down the bottle of Jack Daniels.”
― Albert Waitt, The Ruins of Woodman's Village

tags: detective, disappearance, drama, evil, fiction, good, mystery, police, search

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#15

“I want to follow your orders, but, I…I still work for military intelligence, and I need permission to travel out of my stationed area.”
― Karl Braungart, Counter Identity

tags: cia, cold-war, conflict, government, identity, iraq, jeopardy, military, series

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#16

“When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.”
― Émile Zola, The Fortune of the Rougons

tags: peasants

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#17

“A Christian has no business being satisfied with mediocrity. He's supposed to reach for the stars. Why not? He's not on his own anymore. He has God's help now.”
― Catherine Marshall, Christy

tags: alice-henderson, catherine-marshall, christy, christy-huddleston

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#18

“He felt empty and lost like he didn't belong anywhere.”
― James Dashner, The Scorch Trials

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#19

“Camp fires, like red, peculiar blossoms, dotted the night.”
― Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage

tags: literature

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#20

“Nance is funny that way. She likes women her own size--like your sister. She knows where she is with a woman like Martha. Whereas Molly--she's so--well, so full of life, she makes Nance feel even sicker.”
― Tracy Chevalier, At the Edge of the Orchard

tags: sick, women

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#21

“Did you ever notice that all machines are made for some reason? … They are built to make you laugh, like the mouse here, or to tell the time, like clocks, or to fill you with wonder like the automaton. Maybe that's why a broken machine always makes me a little sad, because it isn't able to do what it was meant to do. … Maybe it's the same with people: if you lose your purpose, it's like you're broken.”
― Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret

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#22

“Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.”
― Joseph Campbell

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#23

“Goodnight nobody, goodnight mush”
― Margaret Wise Brown, Goodnight Moon

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#24

“And I pray one prayer--I repeat it till my tongue stiffens--Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living; you said I killed you--haunt me, then! The murdered DO haunt their murderers, I believe. I know that ghosts HAVE wandered on earth. Be with me always--take any form--drive me mad! only DO not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I CANNOT live without my life! I CANNOT live without my soul!”
― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

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#25

“The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.”
― Arthur C Clarke

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#26

“The spring breeze felt like the warm breath of a child on Kumiko’s face. It played delicately with her hair like tiny fingers, and made the trees whisper a breathless song.”
― John Rachel, Love Connection: Romance in the Land of the Rising Sun

tags: drug-cartels, drug-trafficking, japan, japanese-culture, kenya, love-connection, nigeria, true-crime, uganda

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#27

“Oscar looked up from his plate, and if a cat could laugh, he would have. ‘Boy, that’s ugly, even for a jinn. Looks like a cross between a rat, a frog and a bottlebrush.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

tags: action, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fiction, historical-fantasy, thriller, urban-fantasy, ya-paranormal

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#28

“I know you don’t believe me, but you’re here for you own fucking protection, Kara. If I have to tie you to my bed to keep you safe, don’t think I won’t.”
― Becky Wilde, Bratva Connection: Maxim

tags: adventure, excitement, exciting, fast-paced, full-on, intrigue, love, passion, sex, thrilling

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#29

“Before she knew it, Remy found herself daydreaming about Logan holding her tight against his lean, muscular body.”
― Hope Worthington, Shifting Moon: Shifting Moon Saga, Book 1

tags: contemporary-romance, drama, fantasy, intrigue, mystery, paranormal, paranormal-romance, teen-ya, urban-fantasy, young-adult

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#30

“Looking over the Ethan's bowed head, amidst the tangled forest of Wilderness littered with the bodies of men dead and dying, Victor saw the serene image of his mother. She smiled at her son, her unbound black hair blowing wildly in the breeze. She reached a hand out towards him, and this time, he went with her.”
― Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

tags: american-historical-romance, historical-romance, historical-victorian-romance, history, love, passion, romance, torment, victorian-romance

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